Ariana Grande’s fans said the singer appeared to have lost a lot of weight when they saw her promote Wicked: For Good recently — but she since reassured her following
02:21, 10 Dec 2025Updated 02:21, 10 Dec 2025
Ariana Grande’s fans recently noted a change in her appearance(Image: Getty Images)
Popstar Ariana Grande’s family members fear the singer is “not in a healthy place” amid concerns around her weight loss.
Fans had expressed worry for the singer, 32, noting a change in her appearance during her promotion for the release of the second installment of Wicked. Ariana is in Wicked: For Good, which came out last month, after the huge success of the first film of this series.
Ariana hit back at the scrutiny by resharing a clip of an interview in which she spoke about her body. In the interview, she said: “In today’s society, there is a comfortability that we shouldn’t have at all — commenting on others’ looks, appearance, what they think is going on behind the scenes, or health or how they present themselves … that I think is really dangerous.”
But some of her family members have today shared their concern. One said: “Ariana did not handle [the press tour] well at all. It bothered her a lot — from the red carpet incident [in which a man tried to attack her] to what people were saying about her online. She can be very thin-skinned, and people commenting on how skinny she is was really troubling to her.”
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Ariana is pictured with Cynthia Erivo last monthat the premiere(Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Ariana, pictured in 2018, has won two Grammys(Image: Getty Images for iHeartMedia)
Wicked: For Good, which also stars Bridgerton actor Jonathan Bailey and Drift actress Cynthia Erivo, has been a box office success. It made approximately $112.5million (£84million) globally during its first weekend in cinemas.
But at the premiere for the Wicked: For Good last month, Ariana was ambushed by a Johnson Wen, a repeated red-carpet rusher who jumped the barrier to grab hold of her. Thankfully, Cynthia swooped into action, wrapping her arm around Ariana as bodyguards grabbed the man. Wen, 26, was sentenced to nine days in prison for being a public nuisance in Singapore.
At the time, a separate source revealed that the attack had triggered Ariana’s post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which she has been battling since the terrorist bombing at her concert in Manchester in 2017 that left 22 dead.
“She is struggling right now. She’s not in a healthy place and she knows it. Everyone around her knows it. Her anxiety is through the roof. She over-exerted herself and the cracks started to show pretty quickly,” the family source told the Daily Mail this week.
The insider, thought to be from Florida, added: “Fortunately she’s got a support system. Everyone is encouraging her to take care of her own mental health — because she needs to.”
The family source said Ariana “has leaned on Cynthia a lot” throughout the chaotic press tour, and that Erivo “checks in” with Ariana multiple times a day.